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Re: Meeting on the 15th?
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Date: 
Sun, 13 May 2001 04:40:00 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.nelug, Suzanne D. Rich writes:

Well, wouldn't ya know it.. Yesterday I, quite unexpectedly,
went into a building frenzy after figuring out how the asymmetrical
cabling runs through the new Charles River crossing. I've been in
love with this thing since I first saw the drawings.. It's architecturally
goregous and technologically brilliant.
(IMHO)

Mine too. It's different than other cable stayed bridges like the Tampa-St.
Pete but apparently not the first bridge to use the "pass through" towers.

See this post to .trains and ones near it, apparently there is one in europe
somewhere too, and it's been modeled. Way cool.

http://news.lugnet.com/trains/?n=10859

So show us your pics when you get some, big bridges mean big excitement!

++Lar



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(...) Yup, the towers aren't new, other than a few details, but this will be the widest of its type. It's not a long bridge, but the cabling is stellar. It looks just odd enough for someone to need a few passes by to understand what's going on up (...) (23 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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(...) Well, wouldn't ya know it.. Yesterday I, quite unexpectedly, went into a building frenzy after figuring out how the asymmetrical cabling runs through the new Charles River crossing. I've been in love with this thing since I first saw the (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.org.us.nelug)

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